(MURFREESBORO) –“Sexual Assault Awareness: What is Happening? and What Can We Do About It?” will juxtapose the perspectives of the mother of a rape victim and an actor who will illuminate the attitudes of men in back-to-back events starting at 7 p.m. TOMORROW, April 12, in Tucker Theatre.
In “Kristin’s Story,” sponsored by Delta Delta Delta and Alpha Chi Omega, Andrea Cooper will recount the life of her 20-year-old daughter, who committed suicide on New Year’s Eve 1995. Only after Cooper read Kristin’s journal and poetry and talked to her friends did she realize that her daughter had been the victim of an acquaintance rape. When Kristin finally was able to tell her boyfriend, he rejected her and she spiraled into a deep depression.
Following “Kristin’s Story,” Ben Atherton-Zeman will present “Voices of Men,” a 50-minute multimedia play that he bills as “an educational comedy.” Atherton-Zeman, who has worked in domestic violence programs and rape crisis clinics for 13 years, does celebrity voice impressions of movie characters James Bond, Rocky Balboa and Austin Powers, forcing each character to deal with his attitudes toward women and make them realize how they are part of the problem, not part of the solution.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the June Anderson Women’s Center at 615-898-2193 or jawc@mtsu.edu.
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